| 1. | Geography.
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| 2. | freedom from narrow restrictions; freedom of action, opinion, etc.: He allowed his children a fair amount of latitude. |
| 3. | Astronomy.
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| 4. | Photography. the ability of an emulsion to record the brightness values of a subject in their true proportion to one another, expressed as the ratio of the amount of brightness in the darkest possible value to the amount of brightness in the brightest: a latitude of 1 to 128. |
lat·i·tude (lāt'ĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd') ![]() (click for larger image in new window) n.
[Middle English, geographical latitude, from Old French, width, from Latin lātitūdō, width, geographical latitude, from lātus, wide.] lat'i·tu'din·al (-tōōd'n-əl, -tyōōd'-) adj., lat'i·tu'di·nal·ly adv. |